Anyone who treats people differently based on their popularity is playing a role for those they manipulate with kindness; it isn't kindness at all; it's maneuvering.
The real them is the one who is mean to those they don't care about impressing. Anyone who is kind and loving in their basic character is that way all the time with everyone. They don't change based on who they are with and they do not flatter to gain advantage.
If someone is kind to everyone else and rude to you when no one is looking, you have just experienced their true character. There is no kindness in the character of those who love those who can provide something for them, even if it is only flattering them to gain their approval.
Matthew 5:44: "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you".
1 Peter 3:9: "Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called".
Our basic character is revealed during hardship or difficulties. Those who respond in rudeness at the slightest challenge have bitterness in their hearts.
Those who follow Christ have no need to manipulate or exert power over others because they are secure in Christ. Insecure people know they have no power so they pretend to have it over those they think are weaker than they.
Psalm 91 shows us that when we are secure in Christ, we have no need to have power over others through intimidation, manipulation, and mockery.
Psalm 91 "1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—
the Most High, who is my refuge
10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the adder;
the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.
14 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
I will protect him, because he knows my name.
15 When he calls to me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The New Covenant Replaced the Old
Those Biblical traditions in the Old Testament were given to the Jews as signs of the Messiah to come.
As a Gentile, I am not commanded to follow them, but to follow the Messiah Who has died and risen from the dead for the sake of paying for our sins.
I do not celebrate any of the man-made holidays: Christmas (which was Catholic, based on their "mass"), Halloween, which is clearly pagan, Easter, which was based on false gods, which were also pagan.
None of these holidays were given by God, and all of them mixed paganism with Christianity.
Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
When Christ came and fulfilled His mission, we no longer need the holidays of the Old Testament; they were wonderful teaching tools given by God until He fulfilled the promise of His coming, and they remain wonderful teaching tools today, but there is no obligation to follow them.
Now we celebrate what He has given us based on that fulfillment; that is the Lord's Supper. Before the cross, the Jews celebrated the Messiah to come. Now all those who have trusted in Christ celebrate that He has already come in the Lord's Supper that Jesus Christ commanded.
Now we remember what has been finished on the cross on our behalf.
1 Corinthians 14:26 "What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church."
1 Corinthians 10:16-17 "Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
Luke 22:19-20 "And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you."
Matthew 26:26-28 "While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."
All of the symbols of the Old Testament spoke to the Messiah to come.
The symbols of the Lord's Supper speak to the fulfillment of that promise of the Messiah, and now we celebrate that He has come and rose from the dead, awaiting the direction from the Father to come and gather His children in the rapture.
Hallelujah!!!! We are not burdened with man-made holidays or past promises; we are full of the blessing of promises fulfilled and future promises yet to be fulfilled!!!
As a Gentile, I am not commanded to follow them, but to follow the Messiah Who has died and risen from the dead for the sake of paying for our sins.
I do not celebrate any of the man-made holidays: Christmas (which was Catholic, based on their "mass"), Halloween, which is clearly pagan, Easter, which was based on false gods, which were also pagan.
None of these holidays were given by God, and all of them mixed paganism with Christianity.
Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
When Christ came and fulfilled His mission, we no longer need the holidays of the Old Testament; they were wonderful teaching tools given by God until He fulfilled the promise of His coming, and they remain wonderful teaching tools today, but there is no obligation to follow them.
Now we celebrate what He has given us based on that fulfillment; that is the Lord's Supper. Before the cross, the Jews celebrated the Messiah to come. Now all those who have trusted in Christ celebrate that He has already come in the Lord's Supper that Jesus Christ commanded.
Now we remember what has been finished on the cross on our behalf.
1 Corinthians 14:26 "What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church."
1 Corinthians 10:16-17 "Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
Luke 22:19-20 "And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you."
Matthew 26:26-28 "While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."
All of the symbols of the Old Testament spoke to the Messiah to come.
The symbols of the Lord's Supper speak to the fulfillment of that promise of the Messiah, and now we celebrate that He has come and rose from the dead, awaiting the direction from the Father to come and gather His children in the rapture.
Hallelujah!!!! We are not burdened with man-made holidays or past promises; we are full of the blessing of promises fulfilled and future promises yet to be fulfilled!!!
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